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B’klyn HS football star’s shooting could have been prevented if cops used stop-and-frisk: teammates

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SENSELESS: Fritz Pascal was shot breaking up a robbery outside Grady HS in Brooklyn, where a bag remained from the incident. (Peter H. Gerber)

A Brooklyn high-school football star’s shooting could have been prevented if cops had stopped and frisked the gunmen, his teammates told The Post yesterday.

The William Grady HS students, who visited Fritz Pascal, 17, at Lutheran Medical Center, said they understand the need for the controversial police procedure with so many illegal handguns on the street.

“If they had stopped him [the thug], and found the gun before he had got there, he [Pascal] wouldn’t have been shot,” said teammate Bryant Brown, 16.

“I think that stop-and-frisk is worth the while,” echoed his pal Matthew Summer 16. “It would stop incidents like this.”

Assistant junior-varsity coach Chris McThail, 33, added, “If there was more of police presence around the school, maybe it could have been avoided.”

Pascal remained in critical condition yesterday after surgery to remove the bullet from his back.

He was barely able to speak to his visitors.

The young linebacker was shot Tuesday night when he jumped between alleged gunman Kyreef Cob, 19, and the 16-year-old kid he was trying to rob.

Cob and pals Armando Agosto, 17, Bailah Abdullah, 19, and Jasper Mixon, 18, went to the playground near Grady HS to steal the young victim’s designer bag, sources said.

The hoodie-wearing wolfpack cornered their 16-year-old target on the playground basketball court on Brighton Fourth Street and Brighton Fourth Road in Sheepshead Bay.

“Where’s our Louis Vuitton bag?” one of the muggers barked.

The thugs ran off after the shooting but were collared by cops a few blocks away. They were awaiting arraignment last night.

Pascal’s mother, Fritzie, who hasn’t left her son’s bedside, agreed with his teammates that cops should be allowed to search people on the street they deem suspicious.

“If the cops were in the vicinity at the time and they did that [stop-and-frisk], maybe my son would be saved from going through this hell that he is going through now,” she said.

“It has its pros and cons,” she said of the contentious policy.

“If you can prevent something from happening by taking away a weapon from someone who should not have one, then it’s a good thing.”

The brave high-school junior has been described by friends as a good Samaritan who frequently sticks up for smaller kids when they are bullied.

Asked if he felt like a hero for saving his friend’s life, the teen linebacker shook his head and said, “I was raised to help people.”

His mother added, “It’s like him to want to help people — he thinks it’s his duty to help people.”

As far as the teenaged thugs who put her son in the hospital, Fritzie Pascal said, “I pity them, I pity their parents.”